Assistant Director, HRBP (Strategic)

About the role

Woodlands Hospital, a new integrated acute and community hospital in Singapore, is hiring a Strategic HRBP (Assistant Director, HRBP). The role sits at the heart of workforce transformation: turning business priorities and service redesign needs into people strategies that build future-ready capabilities, enable AI-enabled ways of working and strengthen leader effectiveness.

Key responsibilities

• Drive organisational and business outcomes through people strategy, translating business priorities, service redesign needs and emerging workforce risks into strategic people imperatives.
• Lead multi-year workforce planning based on skills, roles and future care-delivery demands, identifying capability gaps and anticipating workforce shifts.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clinical leaders, providing insights, challenging assumptions and guiding decisions on talent, structure, succession and organisational effectiveness.
• Drive people-related change strategies for digitalisation, operating-model shifts and care-model redesign, assessing readiness and aligning stakeholders.
• Use workforce and organisational data to diagnose root causes, shape strategy and measure impact, turning insights into narratives that influence leadership decisions.
• Coach leaders on performance culture, accountability and team health, and support organisational design initiatives.
• Partner with COEs (Talent, Rewards, Employee/Industrial Relations, HR Technology and Analytics, Organisational Wellness and Engagement) to deliver integrated solutions.

Required profile

• 8+ years in HR with significant enterprise-level HR business partnering exposure and a proven ability to influence leaders.
• Strong systems thinker with organisational design literacy, able to set direction amid ambiguity.
• Demonstrated change leadership and facilitation skills, calm under pressure.
• Healthcare experience is welcome but not required.

Required skills

• Advanced data and analytics fluency, including query, interpretation and storytelling, plus AI literacy to shape use cases and adoption guardrails.
• Consulting toolkit: hypothesis-led diagnosis, options and trade-offs, benefit cases and measurable follow-through.